Immediate Family

About Thomas Pittman

Thomas Pittman, Jr.. married to Elizabeth Lancaster , daugh ter of Robert and Sarah Lancaster , (Robert gave a depositi on to the court about that Thomas Pittman's will and name d his daughter and Pittman grandson in that deposition) an d as far as I can tell, she was mother to all the childre n he named in the will of 1730, which is on file in Richmon d (I have a copy)..The Pittmans were of Scandinavian origin ,and first went into Saxony,and there went into Britton an d settled in Momouthshire.One the Welsh border where they w ere living in the seventeenth century,and fought for thei r ill fated King.The coat of arms was granted to Sir Georg e Pittman,once governor general of India,and a deccendant o f the famous Captain John Pittman of Oliver Cromwell's army . When Charles was beheaded,three Pittman brothers joine d a Cavalier emigration to America and landed at James City ,Virginia.There in the course of time ,they seperated;